Marconi Prize

Marconi Prize
The Marconi Prize is an annual award recognizing achievements and advancements made in field of communications (radio, mobile, wireless, telecommunications, data communications, networks, and Internet). The prize is awarded by the Marconi Society, and it includes a $100,000 honorarium and a work of sculpture. Recipients of the prize are awarded at the Marconi Society's annual symposium and gala.
Occasionally, the Marconi Society Lifetime Achievement Award is bestowed on legendary late-career individuals, recognizing their transformative contributions and remarkable impacts to the field of communications and to the development of the careers of students, colleagues and peers, throughout their lifetimes. So far, the recipients include Claude E. Shannon (2000, died in 2001), William O. Baker (2003, died in 2005), Gordon E. Moore (2005), Amos E. Joel Jr. (2009, died in 2008), Robert W. Galvin (2011, died in 2011), and Thomas Kailath (2017).
Criteria
The Marconi Prize is awarded based on the candidate’s contributions in the following areas:
The significance of the impact of the nominee’s work on widely-used technology.
The scientific importance of the nominee’s work in setting the stage for, influencing, and advancing the field beyond the nominee’s own achievements.
The nominee’s contributions to innovation and entrepreneurship by introducing completely new ideas, methods, or technologies. These may include forming, leading, or advising organizations, mentoring students on moving ideas from research to implementation, or fostering new industries/enabling scale implementation.
The social and humanitarian impact of the nominee’s contributions to the design, development, and/or deployment of new communication technologies or communications public policies that promote social development and/or inclusiveness.
Marconi Fellow
The Marconi Prize winners are also named as Marconi Fellows. The foundation and the prize are named after the honor of Guglielmo Marconi, a Nobel laureate and one of the pioneers of radio communications. Recipients of the Marconi Prize are also expected to pursue further creative work to advance the understanding and development of communications technology for the benefit of mankind.
List of Marconi Prize winners
Past winners of the Marconi Prize include Lawrence E. Page and Sergey Brin for the development of web search company Google, Tim Berners-Lee for his leadership and innovations in the World Wide Web, Nobel Laureate Charles K. Kao for developing fiber-optic communications, and Martin Hellman and Whitfield Diffie for their work in security - the Diffie–Hellman key exchange. The first award was given in 1975.
1975–1996
1975: James Rhyne Killian
1976: Hiroshi Inose
1977: Arthur Leonard Schawlow
1978: Colin Cherry
1979: John Robinson Pierce
1980: Yash Pal
1981: Seymour Papert
1982: Arthur C. Clarke
1983: Francesco Carassa
1984: Eric Albert Ash
1985: Charles Kuen Kao
1986: Leonard Kleinrock
1987: Robert Wendell Lucky
1988: Federico Faggin
1989: Robert N. Hall
1990: Andrew J. Viterbi
1991: Paul Baran
1992: James L. Flanagan
1993: Izuo Hayashi
1994: Robert E. Kahn
1995: Jacob Ziv
1996: Gottfried Ungerboeck
1997–present
1997: G. David Forney, Jr.
1998: Vinton G. Cerf
1999: James L. Massey
2000: Martin Hellman and Whitfield Diffie
2001: Herwig Kogelnik and Allan Snyder
2002: Tim Berners-Lee
2003: Robert Metcalfe and Robert G. Gallager
2004: Sergey Brin and Lawrence Page
2005: Claude Berrou
2006: John M. Cioffi
2007: Ronald L. Rivest
2008: David N. Payne
2009: Andrew Chraplyvy and Robert Tkach
2010: Charles Geschke and John Warnock
2011: Jack Wolf and Irwin M. Jacobs
2012: Henry Samueli
2013: Martin Cooper
2014: Arogyaswami Paulraj
2015: Peter Kirstein
2016: Bradford Parkinson
2017: Arun Netravali
2018: F. Thomson Leighton
2019: Paul Kocher and Taher Elgamal
2020: Andrea Goldsmith
2022: Siavash Alamouti
2023: Hari Balakrishnan
See also
List of engineering awards
NAB Marconi Radio Awards
References
External links
The Marconi Foundation website
Who Invented Radio?
Technology's top honors, awards and prizes, including the Marconi Prize
Electrical and electronic engineering awards
Guglielmo Marconi